Newsletter-Late-Week

Kadi Richardson graduated from Skyline High School in Pratt in 2014, a top student in her class with interests that ranged from horse riding to playing basketball and to involvement with just about any activity offered. Eleven years later in 2025, she can see how all of that involvement led her to where she is now - a software integration engineer with extensive travel opportunities.

Moving to Pratt as a teenager, KAKE-TV news anchor Deb Farris had no way of knowing that the town would shape her life in such a lasting way. Having moved to a farm just west of Pratt before her sophomore year of high school, she managed to adjust to what seemed like a much bigger town.

We are proud to share exciting news with our Pratt USD 382 community: Liberty Middle School has been named a recipient of the prestigious Challenge Award, presented by the Kansas State Board of Education and the Confidence in Public Education Task Force.

Pratt Regional Medical Center has released the following statement regarding unpaid bills and current financial situation.

Two wrecks took place the first week in May on U.S. Highway 54 in Kiowa County. The first was a double-semi side swipe that ripped open the trailer of one semi truck and left a second truck nose-ended on the nearby railroad tracks on the north side of the highway near the Pratt County line. The second wreck on May 8 claimed the lives of a woman and two children when a Ford F-150 they were in crashed head-on with a semi-truck one mile east of Mullinville.

Cafe Blanc opened on May 1, 2025, just in time to be ready for guests coming to Haviland for the Barclay College graduation weekend (May 2- 4). For new owner of the downtown coffee shop (formerly called MWL Coffee Shop) Adrian White, the grand opening was a full circle moment.